Microsoft wants your web searches and they are willing to pay you handsomely for it in certain situations.  Case in point, ‘Ebay.’  Microsoft will allow you a total of 12 qualifying purchases on Ebay (they must be done separately in 12 separate sessions) and will discount your purchase price up to several hundred dollars depending on the total purchase price!   This requires setting up a Microsoft Rewards account and some tweaking of your Ebay account.  Visit Ebay’s instructions page for more details.

Qualifying Ebay products must be searched out through www.live.com.  Once you’ve typed in your product name in LIVE.com you’ll notice the Ebay banner ad that shows up in the search results at the top of the LIVE.com webpage for your searched item.  For search items to qualify, they must be ‘Buy It Now’ and must show the discount logo.

This works very well for those expensive items you might be buying through Ebay.  If only I had known about this when I bought my ADOBE CS3 Bundle!  I’m glad to be able to share this tip with you though and save you some serious money.

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